logo

Home

Movies

TV shows

Sign In

HOMEMOVIESTV-SHOWSABOUTWATCHLIST
homemoviestv-showsaboutwatchlist

Powered by

TMDB website logo

© 2025 Filmverse

Berlin '36

09/09/2009

|

1hr 40min

|

Drama

,History

Nazi Germany 1936. Gretel Bergman is one of Hitler's best gold medal contenders. And she's Jewish.

STORY

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Karoline Herfurth
  • Sebastian Urzendowsky
  • Axel Prahl
  • Robert Gallinowski
  • Thomas Thieme

    Directors

  • Kaspar Heidelbach
  • Eric Friedler

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ARD

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • English

Cast

Karoline Herfurth

Gretel Bergmann

Sebastian Urzendowsky

Marie Ketteler

Axel Prahl

Hans Waldmann

Robert Gallinowski

Sigfrid Kulmbach

Thomas Thieme

Hans von Tschammer und Osten

Johann von Bülow

Karl Ritter von Halt

August Zirner

Edwin Bergmann

Maria Happel

Paula Bergmann

Franz Dinda

Rudolph Bergmann

Leon Seidel

Walter Bergmann

Videos

movies like Berlin '36

When Inge Is Dancing

When Inge Is Dancing

White as Milk, Red as Blood

White as Milk, Red as Blood

Sonnenallee

Sonnenallee

The Living Matrix

The Living Matrix

The Rough Riders

The Rough Riders

Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters

Allegiant

Allegiant

Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Bad Words

Bad Words

The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows

Suck Me Shakespeer 2

Suck Me Shakespeer 2

Everest

Everest

The Amityville Horror

The Amityville Horror

Avatar: The Way of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

Passengers

Passengers

Gone Girl

Gone Girl

Carrie

Carrie

The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

Look Who's Talking Too

Look Who's Talking Too

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina